Status Updates From The World Set Free

United Nations. He’s proposing the UN, if the UN was a dictatorship. And all the members would agree to no war, ever. They’ll just agree. Because of M.A.D.

Wells is an idealist and Swift would have torn him apart, if they had lived in the same time period.

Did Wells seriously think the idea of a One World Order would actually fly, just because of M.A.D. existing with atomic weapons? Well, he got M.A.D. being a thing right, at least. He didn’t conceive of the Cold War… but I’m more concerned that he didn’t conceive of women having a place in… well… anything. Ugh.

I don't think so. Humanity's memory is extremely short, unfortunately.

Wells’ description of an atomic bomb (again, he wrote this is 1913) is kind of comical, but still kind of incredible.

Wait. Did Wells just predict the Channel Tunnel??? In 1913??? He literally called it the Channel Tunnel, too!

The more things change, as they say…

Litigious Corporatocracy? Yes.
Alchemy succeeds in making gold? Um. Not so much.

Wells writes a fictional account of what is essentially the first splitting of the atom, by a character named Holsten. Bear in mind that he wrote this book in 1913. Holsten writes in his journal that he, “Felt like an imbecile who has presented a box full of loaded revolvers to a Creche.”

Wells knew what was up long before most people.